My route which involved a few bus rides FAQs How can you sleep with all that light?Why Scandinavia? Why Finland?How do you have so much time to travel as an American?Isn't San Francisco a really expensive place to live?What surprised you the most?Are you glad to be back? One question I expected to be asked a lot, because it gets asked everywhere else I travel, why are you traveling on your…
I first experienced and fell in love with the sauna at Georgetown. I had become obsessed with the idea of doing a polar plunge and felt that I needed to train for it. In order to simulate the shock of jumping in near freezing water I would go in the sauna at Yates Field House until I was cooked and then step into a cold shower. After college I learned that…
This post may contain affiliate links. Scandinavia is one of the most expensive regions of the world but seeing it by bike is one of the most economical ways to see the region and, from what I've been reading, one of the best ways to experience the region as Scandinavians do. Camping most nights and foraging when possible will reduce the cost of this trip significantly. It doesn't hurt that I…
tl;dr I'm heading to the North Atlantic for the summer! I bought my first adult bike when I was 22 because although I loved walking I just didn’t have the time to walk everywhere. It was February in DC and in order to get to my yoga teacher training class I either needed to walk an hour and a half in the cold slush, take public transit for roughly half an…